This Christmas episode of Doug is very different from the rest in he series ( no its not because of the holiday) its the nature of the content. It really takes you through a wave of emotions proving that Doug is the greatest underrated NickToon of all time.
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This Christmas episode of Doug is very different from the rest in he series ( no its not because of the holiday) its the nature of the content. It really takes you through a wave of emotions proving that Doug is the greatest underrated NickToon of all time.
**You can find this full episode of Doug on the Paramount Plus app**
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What is going on? Everyone, no need for a crazy introduction this time since the title of this episode is pretty much what you clicked on. So let's get this thing going with Doug's Christmas story.
Speaker 2:Will Pork Chops spend Christmas in the Pound? Find out when Nick brings you a special Doug Christmas this Sunday at eight seven Central, right here on Nick
Speaker 1:Doug's Christmas story aired on December 12th, 1993. Uh, it's a sad thing every single time I introduce these, uh, the, the year into date for these things is I just feel completely old. Let's talk about this dark episode of Doug. And the reason I say that is because there's a lot of themes in this which are really dark, even compared to Nick Tunes standards. Now I know there's a lot of weird episodes and, and Renin Stimpy, and then they can be really odd and strange and just out there. And Rug Rats is always just innocent. And Rocco's got some weird stuff going on. A lot of adult themes that are hidden in plain sight, which is never a bad thing, but they're never this dark. Nobody's ever been threatened to be put down, put to sleep, destroyed, you know, disassembled, whatever you want to call it. At the beginning of this episode, we see everyone on top of the lake. They're all having a really good time playing ice hockey with a pine cone. And that's up until BB Bluff, the resident rich entitled brat skates, way too close to some thin ice pork chop goes to save her and she accuses him of biting her. That's where the whole thing starts. Everything just kind of snowballs downhill from there. And what really bothers me is the fact that Doug, of all people got after him, he yelled at him, he got embarrassed, he yelled at Pork Chop and sent him to his luxurious igloo doghouse. He's like, bat dog and just shuns him off. If anybody were to actually know that pork chop is in some sort of vicious killer running around biting people, like if he's some sort of ghetto dog, it would be Doug. There shouldn't there be no reason why any other thought should go through his mind? And that's sad. But then at some point, the mayor, the former mayor, Bob White, you know the guy that says vote for me, he's got that white wig. He, he has a radio show and somebody calls and talks about her getting bit. He goes and takes everybody down there and they arrest pork chop. Now, Doug's feeling bad. This is all, you know, you turned your back on him. Now that they're about to take him away, you're gonna go and you're gonna cry about it. No, hell no. Pork Chop even tried to, how do I say this? He, he did like a horrible charade thing, this little skit to show Doug that he was innocent. It didn't work. They still rested his. And, and that bothered me. But Doug gets desperate at one point and decides that he's gonna have everyone sign a petition. And that didn't work. I think Mr. Dink was the only one who signed. Everybody else was kinda like, wait a minute, that's a dog. That bit, that girl, I ain't signing nothing. So Doug gets desperate and at one point his, his, his, uh, schizophrenia kicks in and he's has a meeting actually with the famous Quell Man, which we all know who that is. And then the oh oh seven knockoff Smash Adams, and then we get one that really doesn't show up too much, and that's like his Indiana Jones persona Grace Canyon. Now sadly, this is the absolute last time you're going to see them before Doug gets bought out by Disney. But we'll get into that a little later. So they have this elaborate plan to break out pork chop. They really want to go to these lanes because now Doug has a lot of guilt and he, he should, he should have a lot of guilt. You turned your back on him and you let him get arrested that that's all your fault. We do get a couple flashback scenes and one of'em is showing when pork Chop was given to Doug as a Christmas present, we also get to see that pork chop was the one that gave Doug his journal or diary or whatever you want to call it. And, and speaking of calling it a diary, one thing that's noticeably venting in this entire episode is Roger, we don't see him at all. And the reason I say, uh, the reason I mention him because of the diary, cuz at one episode Doug lost his journal. He was going crazy looking for it. Roger ended up finding it and causing it a diary the entire time. And that's basically what it was. A journal's like a, a masculine way of saying it. But anyways, we don't get to see Roger at all in this and we barely even get to see any of Patty, which is just strange too, cuz she's like a pretty big deal in the whole series. This episode feels like it, it takes a span of a few days and it really doesn't because everything is happening all in the exact same day. Port Chop tried to say Bebe, he gets accused, he gets arrested, Doug tries to break him out. All this is happening on Christmas Eve and somehow he gets a trial date and that is Christmas Eve. So now we get to the grand finale, the the courtroom scene. Now remember, all this is happening in, in the span of one day, uh, port Chop is getting cross-examined. He's getting the whole work he's done to him. Like if it's some sort of CSI investigation and they have this man on on trial and he's gonna be completely thrown away. But instead we get a dog expert, a a dog psychologist. Uh, apparently he's like Caesar Milan, the dog whisperer, and what makes him, well, what, what makes him an expert? What what gives him the best credentials? Nothing other than wearing a lab coat with dog bones sticking out of it. He tries to say that pork chop just basically went insane and bit her, and then they wheel in BB Bluff in a wheelchair and hey, wheel in somebody in a wheelchair, right? Jesus Christ, am I just doing this every, every episode? I don't know. Anyway, she's got a cast, she can't walk. So the the lawyer's asking her, Hey, you know what's going on? And she's telling her, Hey, you know what, it, it really didn't even hurt. He didn't even bite me. Nobody's listening. Nobody's listening at all the, the whole jury, the the audience. Everybody's just like trashing pork chop until Doug stands up and throws everybody under the bus. He tells, he just starts calling out everybody, you know, one lady took off for two months and left her kids behind while pork chop babysat them. You literally let a dog babysit your kids and you're not standing up for this dude. He lent some other broke chick. 20 bucks, he fixed some lady's transmission. The judge Doug walked up to the judge and said, Hey, remember when your daughter had that injury and who helped her walk again? Pork chop, all I'm asking you is to give pork chop a chance and let's go out to the lake and find out. So, you know, the whole thing gets concluded with the fact that pork Chop was able to prove his innocence by resaving Bebe. She's an idiot. She's telling everybody where she skated and she fell right in the ice and he goes and saves her and they're like, oh my God, all charges are dropped. Now here's what makes me mad. Christmas day happens. Everybody's visiting the funny family. They're all, they all want to see poor chop. They all want to congratulate him cuz now he's this hero of a dog and BB shows up without a cast and without a wheelchair you magically healed up in a day. Now, I'm not gonna have any sympathy for this girl because she could have easily walked into the courtroom and said, Hey, this dog didn't do nothing to me. You know, it, it really didn't happen the way it did because that's what she was trying to do in the courtroom and nobody wanted to listen. But now she's walking, what a Christmas miracle, right? Another thing now, now I, like I've said before, probably like three or four times I shouldn't be making sense of these things, but, but let's think about this. Pork chop was able to babysit a kid. He's able to, he, he's a master mechanic. He somehow has$20 to lend people. He is a physical therapist, he does all these things, but he couldn't communicate to try to prove his innocence. The dude couldn't take out a piece of paper and write down, Hey, this is what really happened. No, he tried to place charades. He tried to use all different type of, uh, of, of techniques to try to prove his innocence other than saying, Hey, you know, I'm gonna write all this down. Let you guys know what really happened. Now that didn't even happen. Now let's rewind back just a bit. I did tell everyone that this episode was very dark. Now, if you've watched Doug and, and you enjoyed the show, you do see how very different it was from the rest of the Nick Tunes. You know, the Rugrats are always going out on, on fun adventures, Rocco's always just doing whatever the hell he wants. And just running into some really hilarious situations. And, and, and all the other Nick tunes were almost the same thing. But Doug stood very different and away from the pack of that because his dealt with actually growing up. You know, he, he was a, a new kid in another town. He tried to fit in. He had a crush on a girl who he couldn't tell. And uh, you know, he got picked on. He got made fun for the way he looked, the way he dressed. He was always just trying to live a normal life when he couldn't, because, you know, growing up can be a little awkward for people. So for this episode, he went through a little bit of a depression stage because why they were gonna kill his dog. That's a lot of deep thought for a nick tune. You don't have that. They literally told him that they were gonna put his dog down and that was gonna be the last you'll see a pork chop. Now, I would say that pork chop is probably the, the second most popular character behind skier. Everybody loves skier and those weird noises like he's Michael Winslow from Police Academy. He's always just making these weird sound effects. But pork Chop was cool, man. He, he had a, uh, an igloo doghouse where as soon as you went in, it was like the Bell Air Mansion on Fresh Prince. He, he did everything. Listen to music, he played instruments. He just, he was way better than Snoopy will ever be. I don't care. Snoopy gets all the credit in the world. He's always been on, on all kinds of crap. And he may be very old school, but pork chop was a lot better. And like I said, this episode, when you watch it, you're like, wow, I really feel bad because, you know, we've all had an animal we had to put down at some point or another, or we lost. And Doug was going through it, man is, it's a little weird, it's a little weird seeing that from Doug. But what sucked about this is this was like the, one of the last episodes in the whole Nickelodeon universe of Doug, because after this Disney bought it, they, they gave him a long sleeve and Roger had cutoff jacket. It it, you know what, I don't even know how to speak on this because it was garbage. It was disgusting to watch. When Disney bought Doug, that was the end. You know, they gave him a little brother named Dirt bike, which was stupid. They changed up everybody's character. The dynamic completely. It was a a it was a, a different show altogether. Now, I didn't like a lot of those shows, pepper and, and all that other garbage that was on ABC cuz not all of'em were good. They were all just copies of each other. And when Doug got on there, I was like, ah, you know what? This isn't, this isn't hit the same anymore. It wasn't about, you know, what it, it didn't say true to what it was. That's what I'll say. Now. I know I'm looking way too far into and probably reaching for some of this stuff, but that's exactly how I feel about Doug. Now, at one point or another, I'm probably gonna do a retrospective of Doug because I absolutely love this show and I still watch it probably like a few times out of the week. It, it's, it's one of my favorites. And it's always funny because Doug's forever screaming and it's, ah, I will always look at that show with nostalgia goggles and with fond memories. And I'm, and, and my kids even laugh and they sing Killer Tofu. Doug is a staple in this house. And every year for Halloween, I, I try to convince the wife to be Patty and and I'll be quail man. And, and yeah, she's always trying to be cool about and it doesn't even matter. I always get turned down for that one. She always wants to do a couple's costume and can never figure it out. And I'm always like, come on Doug and Patty, let, let, let's go. And I'm always getting met with, now that's nerdy. And this year we went as a freaking hotdog in a taco.
Speaker 3:Oh brother, what an idiot.<laugh>.
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